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Today's copyright wars can seem unprecedented. Sparked by the digital revolution that has made copyright-and its violation-a part of everyday life, fights over intellectual property have pitted creators, Hollywood, and governments against consumers, pirates, Silicon Valley, and open-access advocates. But while the digital generation can be forgiven for thinking the dispute between, for example, the publishing industry and Google is completely new, the copyright wars in fact stretch back three centuries-and their history is essential to understanding today's battles. The Copyright Wars

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Introduction: The Agon of Author and Audience -- 1. The Battle between Anglo-American Copyright and European Authors' Rights -- 2. From Royal Privilege to Literary Property: A Common Start to Copyright in the Eighteenth Century -- 3. The Ways Part: Copyright and Authors' Rights in the Nineteenth Century -- 4. Continental Drift: Europe Moves from Property to Personality at the Turn of the Century -- 5. The Strange Birth of Moral Rights in Fascist Europe -- 6. The Postwar Apotheosis of Authors' Rights -- 7. America Turns European: The Battle of the Booksellers Redux in the 1990s -- 8. The Rise of the Digital Public: The Copyright Wars Continue in the New Millennium -- Conclusion: Reclaiming the Spirit of Copyright

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